out and about

[skirtguy22]

I'm getting more daring. I had to be out of town for several days. Most of what I packed was shirts and kilts. I had one pair of jeand and one pair of dress slacks. I drove to my motel and checked in wearing a utilikilt.For dinner the first night, I changed into a knee length denim skirt, and red polo shirt over regular shoes and socks. A few people in the restaurant looked as I was seated, but nothing was said. Only comments made were when I was checking out. One big redneck looking guy asked why I was wearing a woman's skirt. I said it's not a woman's skirt, it's my skirt and I'm wearing it because it's comfortable. He didn't comment more, but the hostess at the register said, "I like it." Over the next few days, I wore my kilts or skirts everyday, even once to a Walmart.I got some stares, but very few comments at all, and most of those were positive. I do wear kilts out in my home area, but even with the positive responses, I'm not yet ready to test the home waters in regular skirts.

[Pleats]

I understand the concern. Skirting on the home turf can be a problem when running into family/co-workers that are not open minded. I might be able to talk my way around a kilt because of ancestry but not a skirt.

The out of town road trip is ideal as you don't have that pressure. You can enjoy the skirt experience. Unfortunately I don't travel much and when I do it is work related on a tight time line. No time for site seeing and most likely would be with co-workers anyway. I guess I just need to take a vacation, pack only skirts and kilts, and enjoy.

Some years back I had a email conversation with someone that went by the name PropMod. He had a very nice web site and was open with his skirting by way of full pictures and written explanations. I think he made most of his stuff. I had the impression his family was not to happy with his skirt wearing. No sure how he was able to make all the skirts if the wife did not go along with it unless she traveled a lot. He told me he ran into a coworker but not one that he works with on a daily basis. A few months latter I went to his web site and all the pictures were gone. Not long after the web site disappeared along with his email address. I always wonder what happened. I suspect the pictures got around the office or the wife told him to cease and desist. Never heard from him since. I think he lived in the Seattle, WA or Portland, OR area.

[Since1982]

Now ME, on the other hand, IF I felt I needed an excuse, which I don't need, could use ancestry for either a kilt or a skirt. I'm part Scottish (Last name Fraser on mom's side) and part Viking on Dads side, every movie or historical painting or picture I've seen of a circa 900 AD to circa 1500 AD Viking was various skirted male outfits.

Prior to 1972 I wore Male Unbifurcated Garments ONLY in the privacy of my home, between 1972 and 1982 I wore them in my home and to out of town or out of state destinations. Since 2005, having joined the precursor of this site in 2003, when it was known as "Tom's Cafe"after the founder Tom Manuel who passed away, I think in 2003 or 2004 of Cancer, (may he rest in peace forever) and finding my way to personal freedom in clothing choices thanks to this site and to the membership, I have worn nearly 100% straight skirts and kiltish skirts, (tartan with plaid patterns) Including the Maternal Fraser tartan, and planning to live the rest of my existance in skirts instead of trousers unless the weather precludes comfort in a skirted choice. Or in the slim chance that a authority figure demands I wear trousers or be arrested illegally.


(For those few that don't know what AD stands for, it's Anno Domini, which refers to after the birth of Christ, before the birth of Christ is much easier, BC as in Before Christ, no latin)

[mugman]

I shall definitely be making my skirt debut out of town, rather than on local ground, and rather look forward to it.
I did the same with kilts, and it was only after several days of testing the water where no-one knows me to want to be interested about it much, that I felt comfortable about the more local 'kilts and neighbours' situation. They were puzzled, and slightly inquisitive as to why I would want to wear a kilt, but soon took it on board.
Skirts are going to be a lot different, and may never be a choice for local use, unless an evolvement is made slowly from kilt to skirt over a few months. Once folk come to expect seeing you often in something other than trousers, I suppose it becomes easier to intermesh that expectation across various categories of MUGs.

[crfriend]

FIrst off, I'd like to offer congratulations to SkirtGuy22 -- sometimes the initial "plunge" can be a bit traumatic, but once it's done one tends to realise that it nedn't have been feared so much.

As for myself, I just dove in wearing skirts around the house and then around the small town in which I live. Co-workers of mine have seen me in skirts, and aside from some good-natured joshing it's a non-issue. I was actually quite a bit more apprehensive about the matter the first time I ventured off "home ground" wearing a skirt. But, as they say, "To each his own."

[skirtguy22]

Just to clarify, I live in a rural area, my closest neighbor can't see me with binoculars, so I wear kilts and an occasional denim skirt around home all of the time. The wife sees it as being "eccentric" but the neighbors don't see at all. I have been caught in a skirt a couple of times by the UPS guy and several times in kilts by our mail carrier lady. I do also wear traditional tartan kilts out to dinner and suck about once every other month or so. So, it's only the venturing out in true women's skirts that I was posting about. I love my kilts, but at $300 to more than $500 a piece for the kilts, I can buy a heck of a lot of skirts for what one kilt costs me.

[r1g0r]

Just to clarify, I live in a rural area, my closest neighbor can't see me with binoculars, so I wear kilts and an occasional denim skirt around home all of the time. The wife sees it as being "eccentric" but the neighbors don't see at all. I have been caught in a skirt a couple of times by the UPS guy and several times in kilts by our mail carrier lady. I do also wear traditional tartan kilts out to dinner and suck about once every other month or so. So, it's only the venturing out in true women's skirts that I was posting about. I love my kilts, but at $300 to more than $500 a piece for the kilts, I can buy a heck of a lot of skirts for what one kilt costs me.

skirtguy22, thank you!

this was the first time i've laughed out loud in days...

i'm pretty sure THAT wasn't what you meant to say!